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Special offer. Mozart & Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Mathieu Pordoy (piano)
Devieilhe decorates Strauss’s ‘Amor’ with diamond bright coloratura and spins a seamless legato throughout. Yet this is preeminently a partnership between pianist and singer. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. R. Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
What wins this disc the five stars are the facts that Damrau, singing in her native German, is poised ideally between dreamy haze and Schwarzkopfian fussiness...her hallowed pianissimos allow... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th January 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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Special offer. Stimme der Sehnsucht
Lieder by Pfitzner, Strauss & Mahler
Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano) & Joseph Breinl (piano)
Stotijn's latest well-earned recital disc takes the imaginative high ground right at the start...In the booklet-notes, Stotijn eloquently explains why they travelled to Schiermonnikoog (or 'Grey... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Alder can do it all, and there are already plenty of colours in the voice. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Her close-to-flawless technical security remains a constant throughout, and her voice now offers a wide range of colours and options besides the lovely bell-like purity with which she made her... —
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The tenor’s intelligence and his experience as a lieder singer and Mozart interpreter bring their own rewards...I can’t really see the essentially lyric character of Behle’s voice changing much,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of creamy tone and vocal security to a satisfying selection of the composer’s songs…Barnstorming... —
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Heimliche Aufforderung: Lieder by Richard Strauss
RecommendedChristiane Karg (soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano), Felix Klieser (horn)
The Bavarian soprano is a delectably light, idiomatic Straussian, and the covered, pearly underside of her voice is the perfect instrument with which to recreate the secret moments and intimacy... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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